Quotes About Reality

By understanding the world I mean being equal to the world. It is the hard reality of living that is the essential, not the concept of life, that the ostrich philosophy of idealism propounds.

Non indagate le cose a partire dalle parole, ma indagate le parole a partire dalle cose

Grinberg (1983), in exploring the analyst's professional identity, stresses a particular kind of curiosity regarding the mind and psychic reality, a curiosity that extends to the analyst's own psychic functioning; Grinberg

He wondered why nothing was ever like you thought it would be and then he realized it was because you never thought this would be you. She

You think people open their eyes just because you tell them to look? There's no happily-ever-after on this. You're dreaming.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

In the psychical sphere there are no facts, but only interpretations of them.

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

Than to suppose that they like what is human and real, he means," said Beltran. "They don't care the least about that; they like a little broad farce, a little rough murder, and a little rosewater sentiment: anything more bothers them. They can't understand it.

If people say the world we perceive is a 'construct' of our brains, they are saying in effect, that it results from an inveterate habit of thought. Why does it never occur to them that a habit is something you can overcome, if you set about it with enough energy?

Therefore it is only people living in the same period and, broadly speaking, in the same community, who inhabit the same world. People living in other periods, or even at the same period but in a totally different community, do not inhabit the same world about which they have different ideas, they inhabit different worlds altogether.

You are speakin' low like me," he answered. "But we have no dream we can wake from

I think that anyone who eats meat should visit a slaughterhouse at least once in their life, just to see what goes on. It's a bloody, filthy, putrid f**king business.

Mind you, no one who lives in the real world spends the whole time going around saying, 'Oh yes,darling, I understand, let's talk about our "feelings", lah-dee-f**king-dah.' People who say they've never had a cross word are living on another f**king planet.

Kutya nehéz úgy hazudni, ha az ember nem ösmeri az igazságot.

Aki él, nem rejtÅ'zhet el. Szép lassan minden megtörténik az emberrel. Zsugorodik a zsugori idÅ'.

We're not saints, and we're not screwups. We're just...people.

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.

People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.

Politicians are interested in people. Not that it is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.

These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.

We touch the last reality directly in prayer.

If anyone ever told five-year-olds the truth about life, he thought, there'd be a rash of kindergarten suicides.

Did you realize that 90 to 99 percent of what goes on in the universe is either infra (below) or ultra (beyond) our faculties of perception? Because of this, at any given moment, we are only aware of a small fraction of what is happening within or around us. Our perceptual range expands